Encosia

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by Encosia 13y ago
Looking back at the code that I was thinking of, it looks like I was using requestAnimationFrame to do the actual DOM manipulation (based on a variable that was updated in touchmove). Maybe Mobile Safari still allows DOM manipulation during
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by Encosia 13y ago
You can use the touchmove event to do things while mobile safari scrolls.
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by Encosia 13y ago
If Apple's strategy is so sound and Microsoft's is so flawed, why did all of OS X combined never even manage to crack 50% of Vista's peak user base, according to global web stats[0] over that period? Frankly, I have a hard ti
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by Encosia 13y ago
To put that in perspective, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard were released to manufacturing at about the same time, and that ~4 years is roughly 25% of the time that Microsoft supported Windows XP. I'm biased, but that kind of organization-w
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by Encosia 13y ago
I only understand the broad strokes well enough to say for certain. My assumption is that they can do anything they want with the "Double Irish" money, but they avoid bringing it back into the US if at all possible since they&#x27
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by Encosia 13y ago
Microsoft (like Apple, Google, etc) has a large portion of their profits stuck overseas and can't repatriate that money without paying US income taxes on it. That's why spending the money internationally is appealing to them.
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by Encosia 13y ago
I think you were off by one.
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by Encosia 13y ago
One of the main reasons I stick with Google Voice for my primary number is so I can send and receive SMS messages from a computer with a keyboard. There's a Windows 8 app so I can use it on my desktop and Surface natively, and it works
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by Encosia 13y ago
I think the game mechanics are off slightly, compared to the iOS app. I had this layout (with some other unrelated tiles): - - - - - - - - 1 - - - 2 - - - And, pressed down to combine the 1 and 2, but it wouldn't let me un
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by Encosia 13y ago
third-party cookies are rarely necessary for logins (typically just when logging in with oAuth providers like Facebook and Twitter).
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by Encosia 13y ago
In this same vein, people here might be interested in Lumosity[0]. I've been using it for a few months, on and off (I'm terrible about not doing it consistently each day), and it's interesting enough that I'd probably re
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by Encosia 13y ago
Flip was cancelled just ahead of nearly every smartphone having capability to record comparable quality video. It was a smart move by Cisco. It seems less likely that phones will be able to supercede GoPro in the same way, since you'd
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by Encosia 13y ago
You're right, I exaggerated a bit much there. You really could get a good 60-70" 1080 display for what a cruise really ends up costing for a couple people after the bilk you for all of the things that aren't part of the all i
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by Encosia 13y ago
Might as well stay at home then, buy an 80" TV for what the cruise (plus overpriced drinks) costs, and skip the Norovirus...
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by Encosia 13y ago
If Wikipedia's to be believed, OnLive has a datacenter here in Georgia with me, probably in metro Atlanta. This same machine I used to try OnLive has a 10-12ms ping to my Linode here in their Atlanta datacenter. It's not going to
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by Encosia 13y ago
Am I the only one who is right-handed, but doesn't hold their iPhone like that? I rest the bottom of the phone on the top side of my pinky finger, which puts it higher in my hand and doesn't require the "hook" to swipe r
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by Encosia 13y ago
I'd heard of this before, but never tried it myself. Out of curiosity, I just tried playing a game through OnLive, using my relatively high-end (for the US) business broadband connection. I chose Witcher 2 since it was featured on the
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by Encosia 13y ago
I have a Chromecast (plugged into the HDMI input on my Xbox One, actually). I don't see that being a credible threat to Xbox among consumers who can afford an Xbox. Possibly something used in tandem when there's not a native app (
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by Encosia 13y ago
I use Cmder, which is nice and you can resize arbitrarily (I agree that it's ridiculous not to be able to horizontally resize a console window).
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by Encosia 13y ago
The Xbox as a foothold in the living room is huge.
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by Encosia 13y ago
I think there was definitely a time when Apple made the best hardware to run Windows on. It's a compromise though. MacBook keyboards are weird to use in Windows and the hardware drivers were never optimal. I ran Windows 7 on my MacBook
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by Encosia 13y ago
I recently moved from a MacBook Air (running OS X, not Windows) to a Samsung Ultrabook and haven't seen any noticeable difference in battery life pro or con. That's with it driving a 3200x1800 display and a Core i7 processor too.
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by Encosia 13y ago
When it comes to website traffic, it definitely depends on your audience. I have a consumer-facing website that serves a few million pageviews per month and has never cracked 5% OS X visitors (3.6% last month). On the other hand, my blog se
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by Encosia 13y ago
That echo chamber is particularly strong though. Here in Atlanta, I usually don't see a single MacBook when I go to Starbucks to work in the afternoon. Lots of iPhones and iPads as auxiliary devices, but almost entirely PCs getting wor
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by Encosia 13y ago
I voted for TurboTax because I've been doing my own bookkeeping throughout the year in Quickbooks and then using TurboTax each year for years now. I'm hiring an accountant this year though.
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by Encosia 13y ago
Seems a bit hyperbolic to claim that Windows 8 is "one of the biggest disasters in Microsoft's history" even though Windows 8 usage seems to have already surpassed all versions of OS X combined: http://gs.statcount
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by Encosia 13y ago
I didn't claim that it was or wasn't.
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by Encosia 13y ago
> Bashing DOM nodes together to do a task is merely one manifestation of this. I suppose that's what I was getting at originally. There's absolutely nothing that removing or adding jQuery will do to impact the larger problem of
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by Encosia 13y ago
I believe that size assumes gzip on top of the minification. Minified alone, jQuery should come in at just over 90kb.
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by Encosia 13y ago
> it is that thinking in terms of "everything is dom manipulation" is the wrong abstraction for doing organized and maintainable front-end code. I don't understand how the presence of jQuery on a page forces you to think

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